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Joseph Wambaugh

"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."

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"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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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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"What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it."
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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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"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued."
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"I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books."
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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."
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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 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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"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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