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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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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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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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
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Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.
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I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
