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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It shows some closure and some justice for what has been done to all three children.
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It upsets me a lot that the jury doesn't get to hear a lot of things because the judge has to rule on certain things.
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We've taken about an 18-month project and condensed it to about 10 months.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.
avoid common might truly
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
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We're excited about the opportunity to host the Sally League meetings in Greenville, and look forward to taking the visiting team representatives on a tour of beautiful downtown Greenville and the new West End Stadium site.
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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
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When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.