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.
ADAM SAVAGEEspecially 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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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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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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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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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