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" Shane Smith has led Vice from a fledgling magazine into a global media brand, and all of us at A+E are excited to work with him and his passionate and innovative team. "

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" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" 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. "

" We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility. "

" 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. "

" I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son. "

" Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that on a week-to-week basis. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure. "

" 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. "

" If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television. "

" Writing a check is easy. The opportunity for real change happens when there's a person who comes to you with real passion to create a movement. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" The perseverance and the strength and the determination and the sacrifice that so many millions of people have had to endure to form this country is far greater than anything that we can really imagine. "

" There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow. "

" There is a lot of content out there for the female demographic. "

" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward. "

" Owning content and original content has been our lifeblood - we've never been a suite of brands that's been reliant on a movie library or on rented series from other networks. "

" A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who are truly the best in the business. "

" If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to. "

" The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive. "

" Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. "

" My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios. "

" There's still too much filler, copycat programming that's out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That's not good for anybody, I think. That's not good for our business. That's not good for our audience. "

" We love the Vice guys; we believe in them. We're investors. We believe in them, in the creative work that they've done... What they built is incredible. "

" We've learned that you can't just put your promos up in a digital environment and expect the consumer will accept that as shortform content. It needs to have a unique point of view and style and execution that is tailored to that platform. "

" One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done. "

" Hearst makes smart investments and partnerships across important industries, and HearstLive is the perfect opportunity to highlight the amazing innovations coming out of all of those brands. "