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" There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control. "

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" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" To address what seems like an endless cycle of gender inequity in media, I believe we need to think beyond what our industry has already tried to do through mentorships and internships. We need to stop talking and start moving the needle, and one solution is to simply give women jobs. "

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

" 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. "

" Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" 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. "

" So much of our audience is on mobile and online platforms, but there's something special, unique, and unexpected about engaging with such great content at the street level. "

" I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that we are in the next Golden Age of content. If AOL, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo felt TV was dying, they would not be so eager to play in our sandbox. It is, after all, TV content that's driving their business. "

" We knew that bringing a level of entertainment value to the subject of history was the key to our success. "

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

" I know that when I'm watching a drama that I love, I'm disappointed when it's over at the end of an hour. "

" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" I'm a very goal-oriented person, and work is really rewarding. It's how I take care of my family, and ultimately, I'm never going to let that responsibility fall to anybody but myself. "

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

" I'm not a very patient person. "

" We're not seeing enough women rising to the top. "

" I run a creative company, and the best way to support creatives is to make them fearless and willing to take big swings. That is an important part of our culture at A&E Networks. "

" In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry. "

" In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies. "

" 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. "

" It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Successful shows will always generate great business deals in the future. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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

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