Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.
Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
What is right for the family is right for Britain.
Class still matters in Britain today.
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
While I enjoy spending time in L. A. , Britain is my home.
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.
I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political movement were being felt in suburban households. So many novels end with a marriage.
My job is to stop Britain from going red.