it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
ADAM SAVAGEBack when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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