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.
ADAM SAVAGETechnology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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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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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime.
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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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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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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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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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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We are always works in progress.
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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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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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