Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

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.

Joseph Wambaugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 22, 1937

Topics

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There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Jess Walter

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Once your career is over, then you don't have to live up to anything.

Matt Cain

LiveYouCareerOverUpAnything

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

Jeff Nichols

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

Anand Mahindra

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I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

Amity Gaige

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I love shows. I love being with fans. It keeps you inspired.

Mija

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I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Michael Tubbs

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Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Diane Cilento

Looking BackLookingTryingBack

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

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Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

Deborah Moggach

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If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

Cornel Wilde

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