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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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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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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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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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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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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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.
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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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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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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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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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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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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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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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sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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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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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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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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