From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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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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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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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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We are always works in progress.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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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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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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