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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

I like to think I'm handy, but I failed at being handy many a time.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.

I have, like, 12 screws in my hand.

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

You want a kitchen put in, I'm your girl. I'm very handy, and I love a practical challenge. I fit all the stereotypes of the lesbian with power tools.

With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I just like building stuff.

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.