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The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.
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I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
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I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.
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Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
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What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.
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I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.
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It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
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I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
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I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.
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