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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. "
More
Kind
Integrity
" Civil servants take forever to do anything. "
Take
Anything
Forever
" Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. "
Nonfiction
Book
Get
" I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while. "
Believe
System
Admit
" I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. "
Enjoy
Own
Like
" I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. "
Enjoy
Me
Research
" 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. "
Right
You
Dangerous
" I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating. "
Years
Anything
Six
" 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. "
Trials
Lawyers
Enough
" Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. "
Both Sides
People
Looking
" 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. "
Know
You
Wait
" Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. "
Screen
Get
Never
" The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. "
DNA
Case
Want
" The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. "
Real
Cop
Over
" 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. "
Got
Pretty
Police
" The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. "
Most
Difficult
Evidence
" The time has come for professional jurors. "
Time
Professional
Come
" Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. "
Good
Good Example
Lawyers
" 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. "
Stand
River
People
" What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. "
About
Written
Wondered
" When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. "
Did
People
Even
" When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. "
Just
Practice
First
" You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it. "
Looking
Got
People
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