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.
ADAM SAVAGENearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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We are always works in progress.
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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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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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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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