- So, what are you saying? You play the piano?
- No, not a lick. I mean, I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals and a box of wood. But Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play.

— Will Hunting (Matt Damon)

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- You know, there are very smart people here at Harvard. And even they have to study, because this is really hard.

- And yet, you do it so easily. I don't understand. I don't understand how your mind works.

- Do you play the piano?

- I want to talk about this.

- No, I'm trying to explain it to you. Do you play the piano?

- Yeah, a bit.

- All right. So when you, when you look at a piano, you see Mozart.

- I see Chopsticks.

- All right. Well, Beethoven, okay? He looked at a piano, and it just made sense to him. He could just play.

- So, what are you saying? You play the piano?

- No, not a lick. I mean, I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals and a box of wood. But Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play.

- I couldn't paint you a picture. I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway. And I can't play the piano.

- But you can do my O-chem paper in under an hour.

- Right. Well, I mean, when it came to stuff like that, I could always just play.

- That's the best I can explain it.

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