There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
ADAM SAVAGEI find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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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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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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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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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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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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I’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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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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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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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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