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" The best advice I give to young people starting out is choose your boss. Regardless of gender, I think it is important to have someone who supports you and lets you take risks without fear of failure. "

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Think

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" We have a powerful portfolio of brands that are well-positioned for future growth, both domestically and internationally. "

" One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power. "

" What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that. "

" We don't see the Lifetime brand as just a television brand. We see it as a female media brand. It has to represent what she is interested in, up and down the spectrum, in all kinds of content. "

" I'm not a very patient person. "

" 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. "

" It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you meet a veteran, thank them for their service. "

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" I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs. "

" 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. "

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Trying

Nothing

" We're trying to create the connections of today that become the next generation's memories of tomorrow. "

" My heart has always been in programming and marketing. "

" What someone does when viewing content on a tablet is different than the lean-back mentality of watching on the big screen. "

" TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey. "

" 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. "

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

" Great managers recognize that there is no one way to manage. You may have to be 10 different managers to get the best out of your team. "

" Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would. "

" To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power. "

" 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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Big

Sense

" When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are. "

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Too Much

Just

" 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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Community

Production

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

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Timeline

Than

" 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. "