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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More Adam Savage Quotes
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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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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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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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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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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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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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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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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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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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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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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There is no dignity in television.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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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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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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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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