Courtney A. Kemp Quotes
I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand.
Kemp, Courtney A. Interview by E. Alex Jung. "Courtney A. Kemp on Creating 'Power' and Writing Complex Characters." Vulture, 17 Jul. 2017.
Tesla was one of the great American immigrant scientists. He found in America the kind of intellectual and operational freedom that did not exist in the rigid, monarch-controlled, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He developed patents and techniques that formed the technological bases of radio, telephone long distance, TV, cell phones, Wi Fi, just to name a few. Most important he was Thomas Edison’s great nemesis. Edison invented DC electric generators that could power factories or entire streets in a neighborhood. Tesler invented and developed AC electrical technology which could power entire cities and he could move electricity over long distances which Edison could not. Tesler was one of the first scientists to conceive of and try to implement “Big Science” where there were huge capital investments to develop machines and systems to do what had never been done before—philosophically like the CERN Hadron Collider. Tesler even convinced a large corporation to finance the construction of a massive building and tower so he could experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity. However, as the industrial democracies have learned, Big Science can only be funded by governments and it often takes sever working in consort to afford the huge investment that is required. In Tesler’s era, the federal and state governments did not fund scientific research so his work was not only technically ahead of his time but also conceptually. He anticipated most of the problems and need for a national power grid that was challenging America even at the beginning of the 21st century.
At that time Brown’s Republican Party was dominated by extreme conservatives who tended to attack the character and motivation of anyone who did not agree with them—including members of their own party. Brown however came from a state with a strong Republican tradition of liberalism, which however then had a majority of Democrats as most of the liberal Republicans had been driven out of the party by the Republican extremists. At the time, the Republican party had become so extremist that many thought him disloyal to the part for making this statement. The Tea Party credo then as good people do not support evil and immoral policies and they tended to see almost all policies in moral and ethical terms.
Courtney A. Kemp is an American television writer and producer. She created the 2014 Starz television series Power. She has written for such shows as The Good Wife and Beauty & the Beast.
