Allison Tolman Quotes

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

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 didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.

The only time I travelled solo was when I did a 40-day trip visiting America for the first time.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

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

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.