Quotes by Joseph Wambaugh - Page 1

The time has come for professional jurors.
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
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Forever
Hippie
Servant
Civil
Servants
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
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Book
Nonfiction
Writing
Sued
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I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
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Done
Six
Years
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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Passionate
Policemen
Wet
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It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
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Corruption
Fishes
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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Book
Enjoy
My Own
Adapt
Work Own My Own
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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Percent
Screens
Written
Screen
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I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
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Believe
Jury
Admit
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When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
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Onions
Practice
Two
Onion
Realized
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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
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Arson
Burned
Difficult
Evidence
Apprehend
Arsonist
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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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Dna
Evidence
Understanding
Want
Simpson
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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.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Cop
Fields
Onions
Real
Onion
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Fiction And Nonfiction
Giving
Nonfiction
Pleasure
Research
Detective
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What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Components
Fire
People
Component
Wondered
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You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.
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Dna
Evidence
Ignoring
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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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Attacking
Example
Lawyer
Today
Good Example
Simpson
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As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
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Cop
Integrity
Bum
Criminal
Dealt
Hollywood People
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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Both Sides
Emotional
Jury
Manipulate
Manipulation
People
Selection
Sides
Strictly
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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.
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Accused
Interviews
People
Capital
Interview
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I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Book
Mean
Writing
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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 ass and sell it down the river.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
People
Rivers
Wall
Sell
Hollywood People
River
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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.
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Home
Fire
Years
Brush
Fires
Homes
Incredibly
Proved
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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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Book
Dna
Writing
Wait
Page
Test
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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.
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Cases
Cop
Defamation
Lawyer
Trials
Years
Defendant
Lawyers
So Many Years
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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.
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Cop
Department
Fields
Indifference
Onions
Police
Police Department
Surviving
Officer
Onion
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Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.
Joseph Wambaugh / Writer
Blessed
Disorder
Sin
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