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

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" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

" Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream. "

" Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground. "

" I am very proud to be Irish. "

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

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

" I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily. "

" 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. "

" Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. "

" I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. "

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