Adam Savage Quotes, People Quotes, Groups Quotes

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

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We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

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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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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. 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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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. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

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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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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - 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'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - 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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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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

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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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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

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I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

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