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" I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them. "

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" What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. "

" There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "

" 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. "

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

" The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat. "

" You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around. "

" My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens. "

" 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. "

" When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen. "

" 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. "

" 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 must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes. "

" Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. "

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

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

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