A Quote by Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Diane Cilento

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Could Ear Had Languages Pick Quick Up

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Diane Cilento
Australian - Actress
October 5, 1933 - October 6, 2011

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

Dervla Kirwan

I had only a few days in Bengaluru, which is why I could not pick up on the language even though I love to learn new languages.

Anupama Parameswaran

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Salman Rushdie

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

Mick Taylor

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

Mick Taylor

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

Daryl Davis

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I don't know what position Scottie was; he was just a basketball player. He could dribble, shoot, pass and rebound. Defensively, he was excellent. He had quick hands and quick feet with a great understanding of the game. He could do it all.

B. J. Armstrong

I pick up languages fast.

Kristaps Porzingis

I could handle the basketball but I wasn't quick enough to move defensively. Offensively, I was fine. I could get around, I could do stuff, but defensively I wasn't quick enough. I couldn't keep up. That was the biggest thing. And that was at the Division II level.

Gary Woodland

My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.

Rachel Hollis

Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.