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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.
Nancy Dubuc
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told.
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Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.
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If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television.
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It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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