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It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's kind of the birthplace of great storytelling.

In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing.

The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

The appeal of Wii to nongamers has taken away some of the seasonality of sales we've come to expect in the past.