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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 really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

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  • There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

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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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

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  • I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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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  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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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  • 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 would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

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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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  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

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  • With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

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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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  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

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  • I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

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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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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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    Joel Stein

    • Born: July 23, 1971
    • Occupation: Journalist