Adam Savage Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I'm a composer, man.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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It does not pay a man to exist until the age of Methuselah by making his days indolent and useless. The more this is reflected upon, the more the reflector will desire to undertake meaningful and useful actions, the more they will have lived.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
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I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
