All Ivor Novello Quotes
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
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The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
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The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
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The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
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We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
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The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
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Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
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