You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
ADAM SAVAGEI’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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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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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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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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We are always works in progress.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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