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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.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Edison Township
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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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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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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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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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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 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 love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
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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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People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
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The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
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You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions.
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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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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 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'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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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 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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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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