A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.
No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
There are enough no smoking places now.
With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
I was going to hang it up on the twenty-fifth year of this show. I don't know why. Maybe twenty-five years is enough. And I found out that I was having so much fun doing the show that we decided to stick around for a while.
It's sobering to realize that there's a huge chunk of the U.S. voting population that doesn't think of sexual assault as something horrendous enough to disqualify a presidential candidate.
I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been what Sonic Youth has been.
If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.
Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.
