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James May

(1963) Television Presenter United Kingdom

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James May is a television presenter from the United Kingdom, best known for James May Memoir.

Quick Facts About James May

Born: January 16, 1963
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Television Presenter
Notable works: James May Memoir
Known for: Top Gear, The Grand Tour

About James May

James Daniel May is an English television presenter, author and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 and the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon Prime Video from 2016 to 2024. He also served as a director of the production company W. Chump & Sons.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by James May

Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.

Being

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I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes…

Capable

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I don't have any quarrel with the BBC.

Any

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I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

Fashionable

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A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its…

Car

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

Bicycle

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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…

Life

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As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

I can

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I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

Freelance

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I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates…

Being

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I was a car journalist when I started on 'Top Gear.' It was all about cars. And then it all spun out…

Car

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I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.

Healthy

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I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.

Being

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I always found it hard to motivate myself.

Always

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In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor…

Camera

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“Now, thats a pie!”

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Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into…

Around

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I can't see Jeremy Clarkson having very many serious problems in his working life in the long run.

Life

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I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

Persons

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I'm not a big film buff; I like watching films, but I tend to forget them.

Big

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I suppose I could do 'The Reassembler' at 80. But it would be a terrible cliche.

Cliche

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Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

Achieve

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There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and…

Activity

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Never has a material been as overrated as leather.

Leather

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I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now…

Better

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James May by topic

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