Joel Stein Quotes - Page 2

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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'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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• 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 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.

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  Moving, Thinking, Hunting

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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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  Thinking, Animal, Want

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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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  Appreciation, Taken, Forests

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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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  Fun, Intelligent, Talking

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• I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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  Reading, Home, Humanity

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

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  Kids, Wish, Painful Moments

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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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• 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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  Book, Pages, Stuff

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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.

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  Writing, Cities, Want

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

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  Needs

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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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  People, Symbolic, Has Beens

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• I hate walking up to strangers.

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  Hate, Stranger, I Hate

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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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  Thanks, Nervous, Force

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• I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

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  Thinking, Views, Libertarian

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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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  People, Stories, Mail

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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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• 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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  Writing, Son, Wind

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• You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

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  Saying Yes

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

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  People, Place In Life

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