Diana Penty Quotes

I really love traveling to Japan.

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.

I would really like to go to Mexico.

You can't not love it here in Paris. It's amazing.

I loved Genoa. I had a good time there. I loved the sea. There was good weather and good cuisine.

I travel a lot, but I'd love to go back to cities such as Paris, Las Vegas, New York, and London with my family. When I'm there touring with the band, I have to work, and it's no fun at all.

I love Delhi for its historical value and the variety of food it offers.

It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.

When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.

I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

I love Europe.

A lot of what you need to know about countries you can learn from open sources and by understanding the language and the culture.

When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.

The advantage of trains over planes is that there is much less hassle. You can get up from your seat and stroll about; you're more likely to meet people, and, particularly if you're making a long journey, you can actually see the terrain.

It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.

I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.