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Ivor Novello

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Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.


— Ivor Novello


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It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.


— Ivor Novello


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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.


— Ivor Novello


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Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.


— Ivor Novello


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British girls are as temperamental as Americans.


— Ivor Novello


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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.


— Ivor Novello


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Love-making is an art which must be studied.


— Ivor Novello


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Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.


— Ivor Novello


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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.


— Ivor Novello


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A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.


— Ivor Novello


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For the second of these his songs included one of his few well-known comedy numbers "And her mother came too" with lyrics by Dion Titheradge written for Jack Buchanan. On 27 June 2009 a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. In the 1920s he turned to acting first in films and then on stage with considerable success in both.

His 1917 show Theodore & Co was a wartime hit. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning" which was enormously popular during the First World War.

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