Tesla (I) (2020)

Eve Hewson: Anne Morgan

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Quotes 

• Nikola Tesla : In the universe, there is a core from which we receive all information, inspiration, knowledge, and strength.

  Anne Morgan : I know it's not simple to be able to love calmly. To trust without fear. To commit yourself to really difficult tasks with unlimited energy. Is it better to be vindicated or to be loved? Idealism cannot work hand in hand with capitalism. True or false? Are dreams and intelligence enough to save the world? Is your heightened ability, your brilliance a blessing or a curse?

  Nikola Tesla : You have become much better at asking questions.

• Anne Morgan : Energy creates energy, Sarah Bernhardt said. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

• Anne Morgan : She sleeps in a coffin.

  Nikola Tesla : To prepare for the reality of death. I'd like a coffin. Her motto is quand meme,which translated means all the same or despite everything, even so.

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  Anne Morgan : [narrating]  He had a black cat named Macak when he was boy. The cat followed him everywhere. And one day, when he stroked the cat's back, he saw a miracle; a sheet of light cracking under his hand. Lightening in the sky, his father explained, is the same thing shooting from Macak's back.

  Anne Morgan : And Telsa asked himself, is nature a gigantic cat? And if so, who strokes its back?

• Anne Morgan : Thinking, my father taught me, is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than lucking.

• Anne Morgan : [narrating]  The man who says he doesn't care about money can find myself tormented by the lack of it. Whereas Edison, Edison values money, and spends it faster then he makes it. But he's always making it. In great quantities.

• Anne Morgan : And Tesla asked himself, Is nature a gigantic cat? And if so,who strokes its back?