Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

American - Writer | January 22, 1937 -

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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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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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

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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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The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

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The time has come for professional jurors.

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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

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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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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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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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