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sticks and stones can only break bones but words can shatter the soul

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Adam Savage
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 15
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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New York City
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Adam Whitney Savage
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.
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My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.
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Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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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.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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 think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
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Failure is always an option.
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Isn't television glamourous?
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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. 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 reject your reality and substitute my own.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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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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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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