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

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" Everybody loves things that sparkle. "

" I like hats that make the heart beat faster. "

" 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. "

" Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality. "

" The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats. "

" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "

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

" So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening. "

" Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing. "

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

" I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it. "

" At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo. "

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

" 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. "

" People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic. "

" I empathise with the fact that people want to look their best. A hat is all about how it makes you feel - it's so much better than a nip and tuck, and a lot less painful. "

" When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish. "

" Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best. "

" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

" Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat. "

" 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. "

" I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting. "

" I am very proud to be Irish. "

" I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea. "

" Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. "