Quotes to make the most of the winter season

Keep it warm and cozy this winter with these beautiful quotes about the beautiful season.

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ” – John Steinbeck

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tim Allen

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter in our year!” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” – Sarah MacLean

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'” – Lewis Carroll

“They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.” – Italian Proverb

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov

“The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.” – Jane Fallon

“We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.” – Gary Zukhav“

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens

“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” – John Burroughs

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran

“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.” – Carol Rifka Brunt

“If you listen carefully, the silence of snow falling is beautiful.” – Unknown

“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.” – Dave Barry

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MTV May Soon Look a Lot Less White

In a recently released press statement, MTV Entertainment Group announced a $250 million commitment to engage companies owned and operated by women and people of colour in order to produce their next three years of reality TV. The move has been applauded by some, although many say the diversification comes roughly a decade too late.

“We live in an increasingly divisive world and yet as storytellers, we believe in the power of content to give the gift of empathy and understanding,” said ViacomCBS MTV Entertainment Group president Chris McCarthy in a statement. “We’re developing our Culture Code to nurture our creative community and outline a communal set of values, respect and mutual understanding that centers around the celebration of inclusion and diversity in everything we do.”

“We are humbled to be doing it in partnership with an incredible set of organizations who have dedicated their own lives to changing the world for good,” McCarthy added.

It must be said that while MTV has long since evolved from music videos, producing a wide range of programming including reality television, much of that programming has been sorely lacking in diversity and proportional representation. It remains to be seen, however, if a more diverse offering will lead to a more diverse audience, or if it will have any effect at all for the struggling network.

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Relive The Glory Days With These Books About Classic Hollywood

Once upon a time, Hollywood was a place of mythical importance, with film stars as the aristocracy of the 20th century, the kings and queens of a new era. Hollywood seems so different these days, and it can be easy to see why someone would yearn back to the days of glitz, glamour, and glory. This list contains books that will transport you to those halcyon times.

Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine

Having been adapted into rollicking and wildly entertaining tv show from acclaimed creator Ryan Murphy, this books manages to capture the essence of two of Hollywood’s biggest, and boldest, divas. Joan Crawford was the elegant picture of studio perfecting, and Bette Davis the brash and uncompromising upstart talent. Their feud would become a seething tempest of hatred that not only consumed their lives but left a path of betrayal and ruin in its wake. Through painstaking research and interviews, this book is a comprehensive chronicle of two stars who would do anything to outshine each other.

Harlow in Hollywood by Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira

At once both an astonishing and deeply moving profile of a young woman who went on to become not only Hollywood’s biggest star, but the template for many that would follow. Jean Harlow’s journey from small-town obscurity to stardom and then a sorrowful end, is in many ways the archetypal Hollywood tale. The book also encapsulates how myth and reality often became intertwined, and the almost Greek tragedy like narratives that would fuel the Hollywood machine, often at the cost of individual lives.

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What Does the Future of Entertainment Hold?

In the age of on-demand, dominance in the entertainment industry is being fought for on a somewhat unexpected battlefield. Rather than companies competing over content, they’re competing over distribution. Netflix recently cancelled each of their Marvel shows, a move many speculate has much to do with Disney’s plan to launch their own streaming service, Disney +, later on this year. With all Marvel content out the window, it’ll only be a matter of time before Star Wars starts disappearing from Netflix screens as well.

Long before the danger from Disney, however, Netflix had other heavy hitters to compete with such as HBO, who dominate drama with Game of Thrones. And so it is that countless other content providers become content producers, aligning and feuding with each other on a regular basis, each vying for our entertainment dollars.

The same can be said when it comes to our music, and soon, our podcasts. Spotify recently announced the purchase of podcast producer Gimlet Media, become the latest distributor to make a major investment in content production, and likely ushering in a new age in audio entertainment. With choices for consumers no longer depending on what they like the best but also on where they can get it, it remains to be seen just exactly what this means for the future of entertainment.

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The Fire Goes out With Keith Flint

90s rave culture defied the odds by becoming a successor of sorts to the rock n’ roll era. The electronic music that helped spawn it, though technically demanding, was visually uninteresting. Live performances were devoid of of long-haired bands virtuosically playing their instruments on stage, replaced instead by a few people, or often just one person, standing stationary behind a turntable. Many performers tried to make up for the lack of interesting visuals with a light show. Take, for example, the Chemical Brothers. Enter: The Prodigy.

Producer and keyboardist Liam Howlett was a visionary, producing music that captured the imagination of a generation of ravers. Howlett, however, was not a frontman; he lacked the charisma to get the crowd going. It was customary for electronic music acts to bring dancers to a rave, and though they were typically women, Howlett chose three of his male rave companions when forming the Prodigy in 1990. It was in 1996 that dancer Keith Flint was unexpectedly promoted to frontman, that same year the band released their third album The Fat of the Land, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Keith Flint took his own life over the weekend, his body was found in his home North of London. He was 49. The band expressed their shock and sadness as they announced the news via social media early Monday morning.

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