Jeff Smith Quotes

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• All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

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  Character, Kids, Cartoon

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• CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

  Jeff Smith

  Control Myself, Ideas, Monsters

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• Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

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  People, Safe, Moral

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• The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

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  Art, Design Process, Culture

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• Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

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  Food, Class, Giving

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• Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

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  Food, Cooking, Recipes

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• Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

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  Feet, Looks, Toes

  "Bone". Comic book by Jeff Smith, 1991-2004.

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• I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

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  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

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• Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

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  Joy, Cooking, Heat

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• The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

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  Food, People, Cooking

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• Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

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  Memories, Food, Order

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• Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

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  Maps, Problem, Bones

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• Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

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  Food, Wine, Vegetables

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• How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

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  Food, Godly, Eggplant

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• I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

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  Wall, Real, Thinking

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• I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

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  Book, Reading, Years

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• [We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Needs

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• I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!

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  Mean, Two, Wish

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• I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

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  Coffee, Food, Cooking

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• The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

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  Food, Squids, Greek

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• I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

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  Art, College, Design

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• That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

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  Kids, Play, Two

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

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  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

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  Art, Floating, Journalism

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• As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

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  People, Needs, Film

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