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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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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Journalist
Screenwriter
Edison Township
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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 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've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about 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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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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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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It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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'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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Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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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 don't get anywhere without saying yes.
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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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