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Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

- Michelle Williams

Changing, Some, Miss, Strange Thing

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

- Michelle Williams

Death, City, Paparazzi, Descending

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

- Michelle Williams

Always, Like, Started, Wizard Of Oz

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

- Michelle Williams

Always, Been, Very, Headstrong

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

- Michelle Williams

Happy, My Life, Worlds, Kazan

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

- Michelle Williams

Best, Half, Dawson, Film Set

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

- Michelle Williams

Simple, Made, Then, Smarter

An interview is like a minefield.

- Michelle Williams

Like, Interview

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

- Michelle Williams

Media, Also, Then, Doubles

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

- Michelle Williams

Listening, Lot, Filming, None

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

- Michelle Williams

Think, Bed, I Think, Table

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

- Michelle Williams

Learn, Always, Over, Wrong Choices

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

- Michelle Williams

Always, Making, Been, Situated

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

- Michelle Williams

Shy, Maybe, Self-Conscious, Scared

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

- Michelle Williams

Exploding, Action Movies, Kitchen

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

- Michelle Williams

Happy, Working, Person, Happy Person

I'm Norwegian.

- Michelle Williams

Norwegian

I did find my direction at an early age.

- Michelle Williams

Find, Early, Did, Early Age

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

- Michelle Williams

Making, Simplest, Lot, Decisions

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

- Michelle Williams

Shower, Like, Brush, Good Time

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

- Michelle Williams

Some, Idea, Maybe, Closer

I'm not making any bets on the future.

- Michelle Williams

Future, Making, Any, Bets

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

- Michelle Williams

Marriage, Broken, Typical, Version

I want a happy life.

- Michelle Williams

Life, Happy, Want, Happy Life

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

- Michelle Williams

Through, Still, Slipping, Streaming

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

- Michelle Williams

Fact, Her, Very, Conscious

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

- Michelle Williams

Back, Feel, Movie, Excruciating

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

- Michelle Williams

More, Movie, Grows, Daughter

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.

- Michelle Williams

Think, Other, I Think, Daughter

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

- Michelle Williams

Think, Circles, I Think, Linear

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