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You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
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 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'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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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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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'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 gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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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 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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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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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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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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I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
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You don't get anywhere without saying yes.
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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 would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
Joel Stein
People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
Joel Stein
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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