Elsie Clews Parsons Quotes
When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man exorcised the evil spirit in him by magical jugglery with palm leaves and by playing a kind of leapfrog.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
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When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man exorcised the evil spirit in him by magical jugglery with palm leaves and by playing a kind of leapfrog.
Elsie Clews Parsons
