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" 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. "

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" As a global media company, A+E Networks continually seeks to create new and exciting content that will attract audiences today, tomorrow, and beyond. By investing in Vice, we are thrilled about our potential to further deliver content that meets the demands of the latest consumption trends. "

Nancy Dubuc

Media

Today

Potential

" 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 think it's important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it's important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences. "

" I grew up in Bristol, R.I. I had grandparents and great-grandparents nearby, and because I was the only grandchild until I was 12, I was the center of a lot of adult attention. "

" It's an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren't the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Historically, we've had to think in increments of 30 or 60 minutes. And now we have to think in increments of six seconds to six hours and everything in between. "

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

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

Nancy Dubuc

Timeline

Than

" You had a generation of women, of which I'm part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was a backlash. Now you have a generation that is clearly embracing feminism because, at the end of the day, the definition of feminism is just equality. "

" It takes a long time for things to get off the ground. "

" 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

Trying

Nothing

" Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island. "

" 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. "

" We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change. "

" It's my job... to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don't do it gratuitously. "

" Veterans' issues have always spoken to me. "

Nancy Dubuc

Veterans

Issues

" At our core, we are a content company. That content has to be the very best. You can't be a company of this size and be doing what everybody else is doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

Big

Sense

" 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. "

" You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old. "

" 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

Believe

Culture

" A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol''s ratings and 'Empire.' "

" 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 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

Community

Production