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" My heart has always been in programming and marketing. "
Nancy Dubuc
Programming
Always
Heart
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" We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners. "
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" I think that the strategy around FYI is really a corporate strategy, and that's that every one of our brands that we invest in have to matter and that we need to commit to building brands and investing in those brands, or we need to get out of that business. "
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" Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would. "
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About
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" Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. "
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" A+E has always looked in places where others didn't want to look. There's a service in that. "
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" I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got an entry-level production job at PBS in Boston. There, I developed the bug for programming and production. "
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Experience
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" The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops. "
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Our
Support
" It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.' "
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Potential
Said
" It doesn't make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it's not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them. "
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Us
Sense
" I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me. "
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Been
Me
" I would love to see more swings in areas that we haven't explored. I can't necessarily tell you what that is - I think you know it when you see it - but I think we've had a lot of the same-themed shows in broadcast, but those shows are still performing. "
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Think
You
" We need to get rid of bullying. We need to get rid of abuse. We need to get rid of harassment. We need to get rid of the casting couch. Instead, we need to build the bench. "
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Get
Need
Abuse
" It's hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I'm not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It's just how we consume and where we consume it that's changing. "
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Believe
Culture
Me
" I love it when a man knows his place - right, ladies? "
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Man
Love
Ladies
" Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms. "
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Responsibility
Strong
Camera
" From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television. "
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Dance
Her
Students
" I think we all have to ask ourselves, as leaders, do we have the right processes in place for complaints to be filed and for people to feel protected? "
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People
Think
Feel
" My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment. "
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Birthday
Better
Leadership
" The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance. "
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Success
Beauty
Business
" I'm not a very patient person. "
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Person
Very
Patient
" If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television. "
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Some
Television
Way
" It's easy for the board to say, 'Well, add makeover shows.' The No. 1 show for women in the United States is 'The Walking Dead.' That's not a makeover show. "
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Easy
Women
Walking
" You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control. "
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Will
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" I have an innate passion and competitive streak to win and to create, and I want our team to be better than everybody else. Some people thrive in that environment, and some people don't. "
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People
Environment
Passion
" In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy. "
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Water
Media
" A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told. "
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Show
Just
Need
" It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore. "
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Great
Enough
Out
" I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes. "
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People
Memory
Building
" We have a powerful portfolio of brands that are well-positioned for future growth, both domestically and internationally. "
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Powerful
Future
Growth