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Irving Thalberg

Irving Thalberg was an influential American film producer born on May 30, 1899, in New York. He had a profound impact on the Hollywood film industry during the 1920s and early 1930s, particularly at Warner Bros. Known for his innovative approach to film production and artistic contributions, Thalberg led the studio to produce many classic films. more

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“Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!”

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“It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.”

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