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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.

Adam Savage

I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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Anand Thakur
And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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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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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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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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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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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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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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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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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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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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