James May Quotes

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James May

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 16, 1963

I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating... we know that women are good at everything.

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I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.

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'Normal bloke' is my style.

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Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.

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I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

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The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.

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I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

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I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.

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There are very few things in real life on which I agree with Jeremy Clarkson, surprisingly few for people who have to make a TV show together. But that's part of what makes it work.

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I've got a new pair of trainers. That's the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.

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I remember thinking, at the end of 2015 on New Year's Eve, I'm actually quite glad to see the back of that one. 2015 was a bit complicated and had some very traumatic bits in it.

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There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

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The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport, and people can make choices. That's what modern life is all about.

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I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and the girls did needlework and domestic science is awful, really - and I'm glad it's gone.

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Jeremy can't do anything. I've never discovered anything he can do. I mean, he can drive a car round a track pretty well, but he wouldn't be able to light a fire.

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A lot of television assumes the viewer is a bit daft, and I don't think they are.

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It's healthy to have two car shows. Why not? The viewer gets twice as much car show to watch.

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Watching people move to nice music is very pleasant.

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I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

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I think any carmaker that had a brain and was looking very long-term would think about 'Personalised Transport Solutions' - which may not be a car.

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