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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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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.
Joel Stein
I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
Joel Stein
I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
Joel Stein
I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
Joel Stein
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
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.
Joel Stein
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
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
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
The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
Joel Stein
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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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.
Joel Stein
You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
Joel Stein
People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
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 would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
Joel Stein
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
Joel Stein