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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Journalist
Screenwriter
Edison Township
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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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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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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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It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
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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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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 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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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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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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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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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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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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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 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 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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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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You don't get anywhere without saying yes.
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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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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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