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.
ADAM SAVAGEWhether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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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We are always works in progress.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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 repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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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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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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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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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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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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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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