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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.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.
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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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Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.
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I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
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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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I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
Joel Stein
I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.
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When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.
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I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.
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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.
Joel Stein
You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
Joel Stein
I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.
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You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.
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People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, No, I'm a writer, I don't host things. Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.
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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.
Joel Stein
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
Joel Stein