Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
ADAM SAVAGEGetting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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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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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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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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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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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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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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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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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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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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The car is effectively a black box.
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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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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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We are always works in progress.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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