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Quotes from Nancy Dubuc

The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops.
~ Nancy Dubuc
Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
I love it when a man knows his place - right, ladies?
~ Nancy Dubuc
I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.
~ Nancy Dubuc
We're trying to create the connections of today that become the next generation's memories of tomorrow.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
'Cinnamon Girl' is a game changer for our network and is exactly the type of show we want to deliver.
~ Nancy Dubuc
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure.
~ Nancy Dubuc
A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who are truly the best in the business.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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.
~ Nancy Dubuc
Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.
~ Nancy Dubuc
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
I think that the strategy around FYI is really a corporate strategy, and that's that every one of our brands that we invest in have to matter and that we need to commit to building brands and investing in those brands, or we need to get out of that business.
~ Nancy Dubuc
You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.
~ Nancy Dubuc