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Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Anne Sweeney

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Anne Sweeney
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 4
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Kingston
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Anne M. Sweeney
Anne Marie Sweeney
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Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?
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I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.
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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
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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.
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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.'
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While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.
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Television has always been something you watch now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
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My theme song is always: Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.
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If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds
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The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
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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.
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I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.
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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.
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I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
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I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live.
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
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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.
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It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.
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Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
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