There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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More Adam Savage Quotes
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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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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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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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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