Joel Stein Quotes - Page 2

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• If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

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  People, Bookstores, Levels

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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.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Cities, Want

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• I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

  Joel Stein

  Long, Forget, Comment

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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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  New York, People, Effort

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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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  Magazines, Letters, Posts

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• The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

  Joel Stein

  People, Place In Life

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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.

  Joel Stein

  People, Stories, Mail

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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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  Writing, Disease, Imagine

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• You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

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  Mind, Online

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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.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Son, Wind

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• When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Hungry, Columns

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• You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

  Joel Stein

  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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  Thinking, Stories, Magazines

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• It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

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  Discipline, Apologizing, Explain Yourself

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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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  Struggle, Thinking, Order

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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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  Thinking, Interesting, Feelings

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• As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

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  Fun, Writing, Skills

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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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  Writing, College, People

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• I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

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  People, Marketing, Networking

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• Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

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  Jobs, New York, Real

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• I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

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  Writing, Sushi, Columns

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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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  Hate, Boys, Games

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• When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

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  Hate, Real, People

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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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  Army, Thinking, Government

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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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  Hate, Oxygen, Editors

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