Craig Brown
Craig Brown
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brownis an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth23 May 1957
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The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
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Australia is a bit of a mess but hopefully we won't have to worry too much about that for too much longer.
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Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
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(The season) was up and down but we really came together in the last five or six games and the girls are extra motivated for next year now,
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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
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One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.
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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
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The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in authorizing the employment agreements that are the subject of the suit and didn't join the board until after the agreements were approved.
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We've taken about an 18-month project and condensed it to about 10 months.