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" I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. "

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" I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous. "

" I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. "

" A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. "

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" I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem. "

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" The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape. "

" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "

" People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate. "

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" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "

" When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that. "

" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

" How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about. "

" I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later. "

" I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em. "

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" Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable. "

" The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own. "

" Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye. "