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Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
- Anne Sweeney
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We saw Hulu as an opportunity to broaden our audience for ABC content.
- Anne Sweeney
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My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'
- Anne Sweeney
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The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.
- Anne Sweeney
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#Television
#Value
Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'
- Anne Sweeney
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
- Anne Sweeney
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One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.
- Anne Sweeney
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
- Anne Sweeney
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I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.
- Anne Sweeney
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When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.
- Anne Sweeney
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#Thinking
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
- Anne Sweeney
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'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
- Anne Sweeney
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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
- Anne Sweeney
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#People
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#Understanding
If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
- Anne Sweeney
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
- Anne Sweeney
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A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
- Anne Sweeney
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I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.
- Anne Sweeney
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#Curious
#Ideas
#New
#People
Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
- Anne Sweeney
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#Technology
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