I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
ADAM SAVAGEThat’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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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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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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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.
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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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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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