Adam Savage Quotes
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
