A Quote by Declan Donnelly

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano. — © Declan Donnelly
I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.
My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother's relatives in the village.
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.
I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.
I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano - that is my most cherished desire.
I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.
I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.
I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.
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