“More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.” RealPlayCharacterLiteratureDifferencesPoetBritishInventionContemporaryScholarImaginaryTomsPortraitsPlaywrightRosencrantz And Guildenstern Author:Mel Gussow
“I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.” StatesBeliefLeftInterestDifferencesPartyResponsibilityClassSupportDemocracyTraditionWingsIntentionAffairBritishSocialismBritainBigotryPersonal ResponsibilityRepresentingInterferenceGreat BritainLeft WingPersonal FreedomConcealing Author:Norman Tebbit
“I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.” ThinkingYoungArtistDifferencesBritishAmbitious Author:Rachel Whiteread
“The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.” MenFeelsDifferentTogetherDifferencesBritishNeighbourKindredBaffled Author:J. B. Priestley
“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.” WayYearsHas BeensFactsAmericaPastDifferencesViewsLandStrangeEuropeIndiaImportanceIsraelBritishColonialismIsraeliHomelandCongo Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.” PeopleMenGivingStatesForceDifferencesUnitedPayUnited StatesAtheismCrimeFiguresAmountMouthsSlaveBritishPositive AtheismDebtTricksCunningRobbersPistols Author:Anne Royall
“I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.” BigsArtistDifferencesEthicsBritishWork Ethic Author:Simon Cowell