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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.
Adam Savage
Heart
People
Community
Think
Our
Way
Our People
Embraced
Small
Absolutely
Like
Dear
Skeptical
Us
Reason
Near
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
Adam Savage
Myself
Me
Science
Hurting
Minutes
Like
Then
Show
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
Adam Savage
Work
Light
Finally
Magic
Like
Industrial
Felt
Got
Up
Going
Heaven
Dying
Movies
Wars
Star
Star Wars
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.
Adam Savage
Me
Travel
People
Group
Prop
About
Online
Props
Like
Make
Trade
Frequent
Replica
Just
Movie
Information
Crazies
Forum
Who
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.
Adam Savage
Me
You
Everything
Batman
Inside
Something
Kit
Idea
Obsessed
Like
Form
Might
Utility
Portable
Need
Belt
I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.
Adam Schlesinger
Kind
Gears
Like
Switching
Chameleon
I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
People
Busy
Stay
Like
Just
Interesting
Interesting People
Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.
Adam Schlesinger
College
Seen
Enough
Wave
Extremely
Definitely
Would
Would-Be
Record
More
Like
Rock
Doing
Sell
Bands
Successful
Initial
Even
Keep
Copies
If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Song
Think
Resort
Martha
About
Write
Like
Sitting
Going
Place
Ski
Vineyard
I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.
Adam Schlesinger
Myself
Character
Beatles
Think
Kid
Characters
Mustard
About
Inventing
Directly
Rita
Write
Beatles Songs
Songs
Like
Names
Also
Because
Rocky
Maxwell
Want
Loved
Lovely
Mean
Initially
Started
Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Me
People
Jobs
Like
Most
Calling
Gotten
Lot
Maybe
Should
Actively
It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
Adam Schlesinger
Time
You
Better
Somebody
Own
Project
Say
Would
My Own
More
Purposes
Write
Feel
Like
Involved
Calls
Because
Got
Up
Fewer
Just
Just Because
Really
Working
Hard
Cool
Things
I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Day
Song
Writing
Treat
Try
Recording
Else
Everything
Stuff
Like
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Whether
You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?
Adam Scott
Truth
You
Together
Resume
Matter
Made
Way
Kind
Varied
Like
Know
Looks
Just
Just Kind
Interesting
Choices
Career
It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
Adam Scott
Me
You
Financing
Casting
Like
Get
Going
Movie
Your
Help
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.
Adam Scott
Life
Me
Happy
Become
Defining
Defining Moment
Would
Brothers
Had
Step
Idea
Like
Know
Up
Itself
Did
Ended
Any
Being
Really
Moment
Career
Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's really surreal to be on the set and see that it's not real, and getting to know the actors and they're not their characters.
Adam Scott
Guest
Guest Star
Characters
See
Parks
Feel
Like
Know
Real
Still
Surreal
Getting
Being
Fan
Really
Show
Star
Actor
Set
I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
Adam Scott
Life
Success
Family
Me
Happy
My Life
Focused
Rather
More
Like
Make
Than
Dependable
Flashes
Anything
Little
Momentary
Actually
Things
I just like staying at home and eating and watching movies and running around in the back yard.
Adam Scott
Home
Back
Running
Staying
Eating
Like
Around
Yard
Just
Movies
Watching
It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.
Adam Scott
Life
You
Yourself
School
College
Beginning
Few
High
High School
Like
How
Go
Off
Times
Junior
Junior High
Get
Interesting
Your
Certainly
Reinvent
I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.
Adam Scott
Young
Believe
Think
Too
Teenager
Out
Kind
Freaked
Martin
Martin Scorsese
Part
Like
Got
His
Scorsese
Get
Just
Young Actors
Wanted
Loved
Movies
Then
Really
Reason
Whole
Actor
Tons
I was a pretentious teenager, so of course I had, you know, 'Raging Bull' posters and all of that. 'Raging Bull' is not a pretentious movie, but me having the poster was a pretentious action. I even grew a goatee and had a Knicks cap, because I thought I wanted to be like Spike Lee.
Adam Scott
Me
You
Thought
Pretentious
Action
Teenager
Spike
Spike Lee
Poster
Posters
Having
Had
Knicks
Like
Know
Course
Because
Bull
Lee
Movie
Wanted
Grew
Cap
Even
Raging
I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.
Adam Scott
Memory
Police
Long
Guilty
Run
Dream
Horrible
Totally
Remembering
Recurring
Faint
Like
Sort
Because
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Did
Just
Where
Thing
David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'
Adam Scott
Character
Me
You
Tell
About
David
He
Hot
Like
Call
Sure
Said
Yeah
Wet
Just
Want
Wanted
Asked
Really
There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time.
Adam Scott
Time
Job
Entitled
Nothing
Kind
TV
Unpleasant
Someone
More
Longer
Particular
Like
Particular Kind
Because
Doing
Been
Than
Same
Just
Just Because
Movie
Movie Set
Boat
Act
Watching
Set
Treatment
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Adam Sedgwick
God
Anger
Aim
Philosophy
System
Daring
High
Seek
Poised
Pyramid
Tower
Like
Shelter
Against
Apex
Babel
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