Top 30 Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
#2. Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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#4. I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
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#5. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.
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#6. 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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#7. Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.
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#8. I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
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#9. The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
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#10. You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.
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#11. 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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#12. I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
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#13. I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
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#14. 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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#15. seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master's degree from Notre
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
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#19. 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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#20. 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.
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#21. You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disarming tongue in cheek, frankness.
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#22. When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
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#23. The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
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#24. 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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#25. I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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#26. Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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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#29. Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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