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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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"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."
"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."
"Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case."
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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."
"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are."
"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."
"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."
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