Joseph Wambaugh quotes
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“Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.”
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“It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head”
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“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.”
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“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.”
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“The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.”
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“The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.”
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“The time has come for professional jurors.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.”
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“What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ***** and sell it down the river.”
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“I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“Civil servants take forever to do anything.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.”
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“Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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“When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.”
-- Joseph WambaughSource : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
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