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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.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, I am gonna write! And then I wind up.
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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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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 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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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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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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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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You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
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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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When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.
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I don't read the letters section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
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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 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 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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