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" When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn't grown at the same rate. So I think there's a bit of a creative tax on the system. "

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" 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. "

Nancy Dubuc

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" 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. "

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

" I'm not a very patient person. "

" We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt we actually needed to be entertaining. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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. "

" You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write. "

" 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 have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control. "

Nancy Dubuc

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

" 'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least. "

" Panna is focused on the intersection of premium video content and digital product to deliver great experiences. Given those are areas of focus for FYI, we are extremely excited to partner with Panna. "

" 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. "