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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Adam Savage

I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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Animate Chocolate Complex Control Designing Figuring Motion Regularly Thing
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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Detail Industrial Light Magic Maker Model Professional
Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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List Manage Parse World
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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Deal Fun Glory Realize School Snow Speak Wake World
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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Curiosity Educator Real Scientist Set
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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Away Blue Bruised Collar Dirty Experience Husband Proud Wife Work
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Cola Fierce Fluid Gasoline Mixture Standing
That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Everything Jobs Mythbuster Rocket Strap
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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Cohesive Constituent Head Learning Putting Together Whole
I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Doing Fierce Hell Moment One
Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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Because Listening Past Prayer Someone Work
It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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Brain Everything Interested Possibly Repository
This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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Else Fierce Flammade Point Show Van
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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Explain Fourteen Frequently never Old Realize Year
We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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Allowed Explore Kind Large Legend These Thing Urban World
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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Debate Engendered Incrementally Internationa Optimistic Pessimist Pessimistic Thinking

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