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My parents were strict but loving.
Ann Dowd -
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
Ann Dowd
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I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.
Ann Dowd -
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.
Ann Dowd -
I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.
Ann Dowd -
Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'
Ann Dowd