I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

- Katori Hall

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

- Robert Quine

For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.

- R. J. Cutler

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

- Paul Johnson

My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

- Nick D'Aloisio

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

- Nan Hayworth

I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

- Matt Damon

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.

- Lillete Dubey

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

- Leslie Fiedler

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

- Lea Michele

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

- Andre Holland

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

- Jim Lampley

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

- Hans Frank

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

- Helen Wills Moody

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

- Ethan Suplee

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.

- Emilia Clarke

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

- Charles J. Shields

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

- Carl Spitteler

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

- Calamity Jane

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

- Anthony Carmona