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" 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. "

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Nancy Dubuc

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" I'm not a very patient person. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me. "

" It never seems like a good idea to do something that's way out there. But usually, the thing that's way out there is where we are heading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A+E has always looked in places where others didn't want to look. There's a service in that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me. "

Nancy Dubuc

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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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Vice has a bold voice and a distinctive model in the marketplace. This channel represents a strategic fit and a new direction for the future of our portfolio of media assets. "

" Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and there are so many incredible, iconic history stories that have not been told that we don't need to go too deep in the well yet. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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