To snatch the worm from the trap.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
Ben AffleckBen Affleck Love is a deception and a trap.
Al GoldsteinAl Goldstein Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me.
Akshay KumarAkshay Kumar There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
Tom WaitsTom Waits . If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.
AnonymousAnonymous In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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