I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
ADAM SAVAGE“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.”
More Adam Savage Quotes
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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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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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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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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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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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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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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 go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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